How do I make Exchange 5.5 use POP3?

[Shadowfax1]

How do I make Exchange 5.5 use POP3?

Kind regards

ANdy

 

[Grenage]

Exchange 5.5 can not use POP3 itself, we ran into the same issue a few years ago. If you want Exchange to access a POP3 mailbox you will need a "POP3 Connector".

There are various connectors available, we eventually decided on E.F.S (

http://www.chimera.co.nz/

). The program is free although if you wish to have access to the advanced features you can register it for a small price ($49) or so I believe.

Hope that helped.

 

[Marcs41]

There is also a multi-POP3 application PopCon available at

http://www.christensen-software.com

, with optional Anti-Virus.
Works real nice!

Marc
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[zbnet]

But POP3 connectors are a sub-optimal solution - there will always be mail that cannot be delivered, because POP3 strips off the SMTP envelope that you need to correctly route the email to the correct destination mailbox. Without it, you're reliant on the headers having the correct addresses in, and this is increasingly not always the case.

SMTP solutions might costs a little more, but they're the way the system was designed to work. Have a look at

http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_isp.htm

for more info and a list of ISPs that will provide the right service.

 

[Grenage]

True, but you can set these rare mail to be delivered to the Postmaster mailbox. I find 99% of these mails to be spam anyhow.

 

[zbnet]

You mustn't have any listserver users then. Listservers are a classic for having headers that differe from the envelopes. And you can foget about ligitimately BCCed emails as well.

 

[Grenage]

True, although what are "listserver" users?

 

[zbnet]

Users that subscribe their email addreses to listservers, and get lots of emails from the lists they subscribe to. They used to be very popular before the rise of the formum sites (such as this one), but there are still plenty around.

 

[rdroske]

Unless you just mean allowing POP3 clients to connect....

If so just make sure it is enabled under protocols, that you are allowing pop3 traffic (110) through any firewall and that the alias on the users mailbox is equivalent to the users userid.

Then get ready for the people who set it up wrong and download all their mail to their home PC (or worse).

I stick with OWA or Outlook through a VPN for remote access.

 

[Grenage]

Ah thankyou zbnet, I have only been in the game for a few years and had not heard of them.